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Lee Remick
Born	14 December 1935 Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
Died	2 July 1991 Los Angeles, California, USA

Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991), was an Academy Award and Tony Award nominated American film and television actress. She passed away after battling cancer.

Contents 1 Life and work 2 Selected filmography 2.1 Movies 2.2 Stage plays 3 External links

Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and The Omen, as Katherine Thorne (1976).

Besides movies, Remick also starred in lots of made-for-TV miniseries, mostly of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries were she and Robert Duval played Kay Summersby and General Eisenhower, respectively:

"Mistral's Daughter" (1984) TV mini-series
"Ike" (1979) TV miniseries … Kay Summersby, Eisenhower's driver & aide
"Wheels" (1978) TV miniseries … Erica Trenton
… aka Arthur Hailey's Wheels
"Ike: The War Years" (1978) TV miniseries … Kay Summersby
"Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill" (1974) TV miniseries … Jennie Jerome
"QB VII" (1974) TV miniseries … Lady Margaret Alexander Weidman

Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and her parents were Francis Edwin Remick and Margaret Patricia Waldo. She studied acting at Barnard College and the Actors' Studio, making her Broadway theatre debut in 1953 with "Be Your Age."

Remick made her film debut in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957). When they filmed the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the heart of "Lonesome Rhodes" (played by Andy Griffith).

In 1962 she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as the alcoholic wife of Jack Lemmon in "The Days of Wine and Roses".

Remick received a Tony Award nomination in 1966 for her role as a blind woman terrorized by drug smugglers in "Wait Until Dark" (the character was played by Audrey Hepburn in the film version).

Remick died in 1991 at age 55 in Los Angeles, California of kidney and liver cancer.

Her first husband was Bill Colleran, an American television producer, with whom she had a son and daughter. Her second husband was British film producer Kip Gowans.

Remick has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd.

• A Face in the Crowd (1957)
• The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  

  

  Lee Remick and Montgomery Clift in a scene from Wild River (1960)
• Wild River (1960)
• Experiment in Terror (1962)
• Days of Wine and Roses (1962) (nominated for an Oscar)
• The Running Man (1963)
• The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
• Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
• The Detective (1968)
• Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
• A Delicate Balance (1973) — Julia
• The Omen (1976)
• The Medusa Touch (1978)
• Telefon (1977) — Barbara
• The Europeans (1979)
• The Competition (1980)
• Tribute (1980)

• Anyone Can Whistle (1964)
• Wait Until Dark (1966)
• A Little Night Music
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Brigadoon
• The Seven Year Itch

• Lee Remick at the Internet Movie Database